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Sunday, March 10, 2019

Slow Sunday Stitching - A Finished Middling

Welcome to the weekly hand stitching link up!Today I'm a little sleep deprived because Daylight Savings Time started last night and that means 1 hour less sleep in the night, and I'm looking forward to an afternoon nap today.This week I finished up my70273 projectwhich has a lot of hand stitching in it, so I thought I'd share it in my Sunday blog post.

pieced and embroidered X's

I was inspired to participate in this project 2 years ago (read about the inspiration here) and had sent in some blocks for the project (you can read more about it here). But I couldn't let it go after that. I made a little quilt that Jeanne calls a "Middling". More details about what a middling is can be found here.

hand quilted 1/4" around each pieced X

To create the quilt I pieced some improv X blocks and added sashing and borders until it came to the required size of 18" x 22". I hand quilted around each of the large X blocks and it was tough going because that "white on white" fabric was stiff and thick. I've never hand quilted that kind of fabric before... and won't again!

hand embroidered rows of XX

I didn't plan out where I would hand embroider the double X's, I just started stitching in the open areas and stitched wherever I felt inspired to do so.

Here is my finished Middling which has 5 large double XX blocks and 48 hand embroidered double XX's.I'll be sending this away in the mail this week to become part of the 70273 Project.What are you hand stitching this week? Link up your blog post and share your project with us.

Great little middling. I know what you mean about the white fabric. It's like paint on fabric. I have some fabrics like that (one white and one blue) and had the experience of hand quilting it. These kind of fabrics should have a warning on the selvage! A nap sounds good to me too. ;^)